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Luge at the Winter Youth Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ84402060 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luge was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2012.

A total of four events were held at the first two editions: boys' and girls' singles, a boys' doubles and a mixed relay event. For 2020, a women's doubles event has been added.

Medalists summary

Boys' singles

Girls' singles

Boys' doubles

Girls' doubles

Mixed relay

Medal table

As of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2020, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Luge, Winter and Youth is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Luge at the Winter Youth Olympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.